Hey all, Advanced Adventures #2: The Red Mausoleum is nearing completion with only the cover art still in the works. The below link is a preview of the first two pages and the above art is from the title page.
We're also opening up pre-orders with expected shipping date of late Oct at the following link. The PDF version of The Red Mausoleum will be available in a few weeks.
Oh that pic is so f'ing awesome I almost had a heart attack when I saw it!
Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
-------------------------------- It has nothing to do with me until it has something to do with me.
Joe, just curious, what prompted the artist William McAusland to choose the sepulchre for his illustration? He certainly paid attention to the text.
Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
-------------------------------- It has nothing to do with me until it has something to do with me.
SemajTheSilent wrote:Joe, just curious, what prompted the artist William McAusland to choose the sepulchre for his illustration? He certainly paid attention to the text.
I prompted him.
Generally, any artist I comission for an illustration receives the full description of the area along with other details that I think are appropriate to the picture. I work in a rather unusual order.
Most publishers commision both text and art concurrently and then add in additional writing and art when the layout stage occurs. I comission text first and then lay out the work, noting where I want a particular illustration and also noting where an illustration would make the lay-out flow better. I then comission art. It's slower, but I like creating a more coherant whole.
SemajTheSilent wrote:Joe, just curious, what prompted the artist William McAusland to choose the sepulchre for his illustration? He certainly paid attention to the text.
I prompted him.
Generally, any artist I comission for an illustration receives the full description of the area along with other details that I think are appropriate to the picture. I work in a rather unusual order.
Most publishers commision both text and art concurrently and then add in additional writing and art when the layout stage occurs. I comission text first and then lay out the work, noting where I want a particular illustration and also noting where an illustration would make the lay-out flow better. I then comission art. It's slower, but I like creating a more coherant whole.
joe b.
As slow as some companies are to get product out they should do it this way as well. It isn't like they don't have the time, and it isn't like it would make them take longer to get it off to the printers. Plus it would allow for more of the art to be accurate and meaningful to the module.
I'm really stoked about the current module my daughter is working on. The author and she are sharing e-mails and even phone calls to get her art to really match up with what is going on in the adventure scenes, as well as really capturing the "look" of the NPC's.
Its definitely going to be an awesome sequal. Not only because of what the author is writing, but how much the art is going to complement the events of the module.
Sorry! I forgot. Considering how much I love the Shrooms (SHROOMS RULE!!), I am eagerly looking forward to seeing this. Especially with its level range.
Falconer wrote:Just curious of the differences between this version and the ERKME one. Sorry if this has been asked before. Thanks.
Cosmetic mostly, with art...good art too.
The middle level from my old campaign is restored, so subtle changes as to exits, etc.
A few monster changes: for instance, the slaad went away and were replaced by new monsters called Ghezin...which kinda sorta look like slaad. Added another new monster culled from the Tome of Thaumaturgy project Rob Kuntz and I were working on a couple of years ago. Little changes here and there.
Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
-------------------------------- It has nothing to do with me until it has something to do with me.
On page 2, it is said of the 30 Fighters under Ysler and Senis that 'each wears chainmail and shield'. I would hope this was a typo and picked up before full publication? I only mention it because this otherwise seems like a very appealing preview. I was very pleased with my purchase of A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe from Expedius Retreat; good to see them supporting OSRIC.
[i]It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between.[/i]
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa[/i] (1340)
